January 2020 Lunar New Year Steam sale!

@ScottDemon Thanks for explaining.

@ZeeGee your welcome. I worked for Valve during that time so I knew a lot of what happened. I was one of the desk jockeys that maintained the servers for Steam at one of their Data Centers. The one I was at was in Bellevue, WA just across the street from their corporate headquarters. You won't believe how many HDD's we would have to replace in week and during sales it was a nightmare keeping them up and running.

The Sale ended next will Winter sale, the sale will start on 19th December.

Winter sale started and again everything on Steam has 75 % discount.

@Hal2003 Thank you! Changed the thread title

Is it worth getting Sims 3 and its expansions on Steam if you have most of them on Origin already? I ask because aside from the Sims, all of my games are on Steam and I read that there's no way to transfer Origin games to Steam? Are there any benefits of having Sims 3 on Steam?

Is Sims 3 more stable on Steam? No weird failure to launch etc?

There are some changes coming to Steam regarding EA games, so I wouldn't really do this at this point before I knew more. As the Origin client will be startable via Steam soon, I guess integration will be possible that way.

Failures to launch can have many reasons. For example, if you have Win10, sometimes, clearing the cache files in your Sims3 folder will lead to a mismatch with files Win10 "helpfully" pulls from somewhere out of its own caches, which can only be cleared by restarting Windows.

@Turjan Thanks. I think I'll take your advice and hold off on repurchasing the entire series on Steam. I mean, I have it on Origin as it is and was disappointed (at the time) that we couldn't port our Origin games over to our Steam library. And then I was reading that there's less lag when you play through Steam, so that's what I was looking for. But thanks again!

Sale ended,next sale i think will be in Ferbruary Lunar sale.

There's another Steam sale going on now, in honor of the Lunar New Year. As usual, the Sims 3 base game and packs are $5 each.

This sale is short, ending at 10 am PST (1800 GMT) on January 27th.